Collection of Italian madrigals in five parts (SATB5)

All pieces for five voices apart from the last two, which are in six parts

With table of contents on p. [22]

Title from Canto part book title page

Transcribed title from Canto part book: CANTO / I LIETI AMANTI / PRIMO LIBRO / DE MADRIGALI / A CINQUE VOCI, / DI DIVERSI ECCELLENTISSIMI MVSICI / nouamente composti, & dati in luce. / IN VENETIA / Presso Giacomo Vincenzi, & Ricciardo Amadino, compagni. / M D LXXXVI

Contains the part for the fifth (quinto) voice only

Pagination: [i], 1-2, 5, 4-5, 3, 7-11, 10, 13-21, [22] p. (Canto)

Copy at C.123.s. CANTO (12 leaves); paper dimensions: 210 x 155 mm

Signatures: N-Óþ Ṕæ

Bound with: Spolgia amorosa / Francesco Landono. 1585

RISM B/I

Gaspari online, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna, http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/scripts/gaspari/scheda.asp?id=7218

Catalogued

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy included within a "bound with" volume. Copy bound in marbled tan leather with brown leather spine over boards. Binder's spine title and decorative parallel bars in gilt. Front pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library, identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received September 15, 1859. Verso of front flyleaf includes autograph in blue ink script. First title page includes embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Printed on antique laid papers featuring horizontal chainlines, vertical wire lines, and watermark visible at spine-edge, just above center of leaf. Includes handwritten page numbers at head-/fore-edge of leaves, in pencil script. Rear pastedown includes remnants of affixed label

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